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Uni.-. of Orison Library EUaSJIS, OREGON C WEATHER Occasional rain through Wed nesday; highs 43-47; low 32-37. D BU TEMPERATURES High yesterday, 48 degrees. Low last night, 28 degrees. Sunset today, 5:32. Sunrise tomorrow, 7:0. CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER No. 58 Ten Pages Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon, Tuesday, February 13, 1962 Ten Cents 59th Year THE INITIAL CONSTRUCTION PHASE The multi-purpose ath letie court addition to Juniper Perk planned by the Bend Rotary Club underwent its initial construction today when a bulldozer and operator were donated by Brooks-Scanlon for leveling of the court area. Glen Harvey, assistant city engineer, Non-certified school personnel receive raises Several categories of non-certified personnel in the Bend school system will receive salary in creases for the 1962-63 year. Affected by action last night of the District No. 1 budget commit tee will be custodians, mainten ance men, and secretaries. The committee voted to add an eighth increment step of $10 a month to the salary schedule for the custodial and maintenance staff, and, in addition, give the workers a third week of paid va cation after 10 years of continu ous employment by the district. (The salary increase will affect 11 of the 21 full time custodians and maintenance men employed in Bend schools. Ten of the staff members will qualify for the third week of vacation.) Salaries for custodians current ly range between $328 and $413 a month. Secretaries in the district were granted an across-the-board $10 a month raise, with the increase being applied to the base pay of each. Pay, including increments, currently ranges between $190 and $375. The committee also discussed the present hourly wage of $1.95 paid to bus drivers, but decided against any increase this year. The present pay schedule for per sonnel employed at the cafeteria was also continued for 1962-63. The committee decided to meet again next Monday to consider the maintenance budget, and on the following Monday will reopen the matter of teacher salaries. The meetings are held in the li brary of the junior high school. Frank offers plea of guilty PORTLAND (UPI) - Eugene Bishop Frank, 25, Warm Springs, pleaded guilty in Federal Court here Monday to involuntary man slaughter in the death of his wife last fall. He was accused of beating the mother of his three children dur ing a dispute over purchase of beer. Frank earlier pleaded innocent to voluntary manslaughter. The judge permitted him to change the plea to guilty to the involun tary charge. DON'T NEED IT? WHY KEEP IT? Sell it with a BEND BULLE TIN CLASSIFIED WANT AD' Peopie are getting ready for summer which means a big demand for all kinds of household articles, lawn and garden equipment, sporting and vacation accessories. In fact the Wants Ads will find buyers for most anything. Don't Delav, place vour WANT AD TODAY: DIAL EV 2-1811 sfi 0 mm a 8-week program Summer musk plun offered by Whitney By Bill Yates Bulletin Steff Writer The District No. 1 School Board had before it last night a proposal for a summer music program. The plari was presented by Nor man K. Whitney, director of mu sic education for the system. He and members of the music department propose to conduct an eight-week program which Whitney said he is hopeful would attract a high percentage of the 516 students currently enrolled in instrumental music courses. Classes would be offered in the mornings on four days each week. The program would extend for eight weeks, with each student taking two one-hour classes each week. Whitney estimated expenditures at $2200, wluch would include sal aries of $600 each for three in structors. He suggested a nominal charge from students which could be used to provide the additional S400 which, he estimated, would be needed for instructional sup plies. The plan, according to Whitney, grew from a study he made of other districts in Oregon. He noted Lowery in fourth day of hunger strike at Salem Gerald Keith Lowery, 22, of Bend, began the fourth day of a hunger strike this morning at the Salem city jail. But he and the other hunger striker, Jack Lee Oster, 27, Salem, cribbed a little. They had some coffee again this morning. The strike began last week in the Marion County Jail, protesting a rule limiting the number of visi tors permitted. Since the two men were urging other prisoners not to eat, they were moved to the city jail and authorities thought that would be the end of it. But since then, both have re fused all meals. Lowery has only two days left of a 90-day term for violating pro bation. He was arrested in Bend and held in the Deschutes county jail, before being turned over to Marion county authorities. Oster is appealing a burglary conviction. Hall draws mixed reaction in state appearances PORTLAND (UPP Communist leader Gus Hall continued on the lecture trail today despite pro tests and a mixed reaction at two colleges which heard him. Hall's talks today and Wednes day here were expected to be along the same lines as the ones Monday in which he drew an esti mated 12.000 persons in chill and ram in stadiums at the University of Oregon in Eugene and Oregon Colleee of Education in Monmouth. stands in the foreground with a survey level. The finished court will be of smooth-finish cement slab construction with lighting which will allow greater utilization of Juniper Parle and more complete use of the adjacent Bend swimming pool. that most of the schools he con tacted in a survey offer some sort of music program during the slimmer months. In offering the proposal, Whit ney said that it would be of great benefit to music students and would help relieve the current problem of getting young music ians back in shape after the sum mer layoff. Limited Program Members of the music depart ment staff now offer a limited program of summer lessons fi nanced entirely from student fees. Whitney said that the cost to the student of $8 for these lessons has tended to limit enrollment, with only about 60 to TO participating. Board chairman Bert Hagen told Whitney he felt the plan had merit and deserved consideration. However, he noted that since a budget item was involved it would be necessary to present the pro posal to the budget committee. Another board member, Gor don McKay, said he felt the board must also consider the question of its obligation in providing such programs beyond the normal nine month school year. The board instructed Whitney to survey music students to de termine the approximate number who would be interested in the summer program and report back at a future meeting. Other Business In other business last night the directors instructed the district superintendent to prepare a bid call for a chain link fence at the new high school football field. The action was taken after it was re ported by the clerk that the dis trict had received a payment of $13,389 from Developers. Inc., pur chasers of the old Bruin Field property. The bids on the fence will be opened at the board's first meet ing in March. Also discussed by the board were problems relating to crowd ed school facilities. The board re jected a suggestion that churches might be used for elementary classrooms next year, but agreed that such a solution for the senior high school might be worked out with several churches with new buildings in the area surrounding the BSHS plant. The meeting was held at the junior high school, with all board members present. There were no demonstrations like those of a few hours earlier at the state capitol and the gov ernor's house in Salem to protest Hall's appearance at state -supported schools. Both talks were student sponsored. At Eugene nearly 10.000 persons jammed the east grandstand at Hayward Field and overflowed in to adjacent parking lots. Nearly two dozen officers and five mounted deputies patrolled area. the group plans session on appraisals Timber management assistants from 12 east-side U.S. National Forests in Washington and Ore gon are in Bend for an appraisal training conference that will last through Thursday. Meetings are being held in the Deschutes Coun ty courthouse. Heading the conference, which started Monday, is John E. Todd, who supervises the regional divi sion of sales preparation and eval uation. Also here from the Portland regional office are Loster McPher son and Ray Ellslrom, both former members of the Deschutes Na tional Forest Staff. Robert Appleby was here from the regional office Monday, for the opening of the conference. Subjects being discussed in clude forest training sessions, dis trict training meetings, regional and forest directives, overall training and other matters. A panel discussion of timber appraisal training has been sched uled. Cost problems, east side sale problem areas and rate determi nation were among matters on the program today. Mill scale studies and selling values will be one of several top ics on the Wednesday program. Timber appraisal training will be on the Wednesday agenda. There will be a discussion of special local problems as the con ference nears adjournment Thurs day. East side forests represented at the training sessions are those in which pine is the dominant spec ies. ' Truck overturns spilling grain A feed-laden truck westbound on the Central Oregon Highway rolled over Monday afternoon on the steep Horse Ridge Grade east of Bend and spilled sacks of grain over the area. Stanley Hobgood, Redmond was operator of the truck, brakes of which failed to hold. Unable to make a sharp curve on the steep grade. Hobgood steered the truck into the upgrade side. It rolled back onto the highway, blocking the east lane. Hobgood was not injured. Some of the sacks split when the truck turned over and grain was scattered along the highway for a distance of about 60 feet. The Communist spokesman, clad in a khaki raincoat, said the socialist and free worlds must co exist The only approach to an inci dent came prior to Hall's talk when a student arose and waved an American flag. It provoked laughter and applause. Fifteen minutes before it was scheduled to start the talk was moved to the east grandstand I from McArthur Court. University I officials explained the change was 1 Gen. Walker bumped from rally in N.Y. WASHINGTON (UPI) For mer Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker was knocked off the program of a forthcoming Madison Square Garden rally as a result of objec tions by Sens. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., and John G. Tower, R Tex., it was learned today. At the same time. Tower took the leadership in pressing Die State Department to approve a visa for Katanga President Moise Tshombe to visit this country and be honored at the same March 7 rally in New York. Tower and Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn were lunching with Secretary of State Dean Rusk today to discuss the Tshombe problem, the Texan's office said. Invitation Withdrawn Walker's invitation to appear at the rally sponsored by Young Am ericans for Freedom was with drawn Monday. The organization announced that it had advised the former general his appearance might be taken as an endorse ment of his candidacy for gover nor of Texas. A spokesman for Tower said the question of Walker's appear ance was raised with both sena tors, who are to deliver major addresses at the rally, before the former Army troop commander jumped into the Texas guberna torial race. Tower, it was said, suggested that if Walker got into politics, he would become a partisan and that it might be well to ask turn to withdraw from the rally. After Walker's candidacy be came official, the Young Ameri cans for Freedom officials decid ed to make no change in the pro gram, it was said. Goldwater then was reported to have told the group he would not participate If Walker was retained. Tower ap parently shared this feeling but did not take as blunt a position. Final Effort A final effort to convince Walk er he might be "too busy" as a candidate to attend the rally was tried by the youth organization. Tower's office reported, but he re plied he could still find time to be on hand. The withdrawal of Uie invitation followed. Tshombe complained in Elisa- bethville last week that he had not yet received a visa to visit the United States. He said "it is possible that Washington does not wish to receive me at this time." Congo President Cyrille Adoula visited the United States recently. Tower and Dodd, it was said, began questioning the State De partment separately last week on the reasons for holding up Tshom be's visa. The department had said the African loader had sub mitted "incomplete documents," hence the delay. Apportionment meeting called An area meeting to consider legislative reapportionment will be held in Bend Monday at 1 p.m., in the district courtroom of the Deschutes County courthouse. Rep. George Annala, Hood Riv er, will be present to explain the proposed constitutional amend ment. Coordinators will be present from Malheur, Harney, Lake, Klamath, Deschutes Crook and Jefferson counties. Primary pur pose of the conference will be to make ready for the task of ob taining in Oregon the 53,000 signatures required if the propos ed amendment is to appear on the November ballot. Walter Schrock, Bend and Bear Creek, a member of the overall state committee spearheading the constitutional amendment move, stressed that the Monday meeting will be open to all interested. Members of the state commit tee will be available to answer questions. Rep. Annala is secretary of the state committee. Also attending the meeting will be Rep. Kcssler Cannon. Bend, who was a leader in reapportionment discussions at the 1961 session of the Oregon State Legislature. for easier handling of the crowds. The Lane County sheriff's office confirmed it investigated a threat that Hall's platform would be bombed, but found nothing. At Monmouth, 2.000 braved cold and rain to hear Hall speak in the Memorial Stadium. Hall told the group his party is not doing too well in America. He said membership is down be cause of "persecution" and be cause of the unfertile atmosphere for a socialist state. Rampaging Idaho rivers causing widespread we Hope for Wednesday orbit shot no w 50-50 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. ( UPI i A space official said today that chance of launching astronaut John H. Glenn Jr., 40, into orbit Wednesday have been cut to 50-50 by marginal weather in a sea re covery area. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported "marginal conditions, fresh winds, and moderately high seas" likely in the Atlantic where Glenn would land if his flight were limited to one orbital trip around the earth. Lt. Col. John A. (Shorty) Pow er, a NASA spokesman, said this meant the chances for a launch Wednesday were roughly 50-50. The Atlas rocket which will boost Glenn and his Friendship-7 spacecraft into orbit was reported ready to go. The complex space craft was said to be in top work- Plans made for 4-H faf sfock show Dates for the 1962 show and sale were set and officers for the com ing year were elected at a meet ing of (lie Bend 4-H Livestock Show Association here Monday evening, at the Deschutes County courthouse. Named president was Eldon Hayes, Prineville, with Larry Gassner, Bend, the choice for vice - president; Kenneth John son, Bend, was elected secretary- treasurer. Directors, in addition to the officers, are Larry Timmerman and Don Snabel, Powell Butte; Dick Wayman, Bend, and Gordon Galbrailh, Madras. Dates selected for the a n n u a 1 event, successor to the 4-H Livestock Show and Sale held here for many years by the Ro tary Club, are June 7, 8 and 9, a weekend. Present plans are to hold the show in the same location as last year, in the Bend Municipal Base ball Park area. The show was held for the first time last year as an association presentation, with Kenneth John son as general manager. Association members attending last night's organization meeting named various preliminary com mittees, "to get the show under way," the new officers said. Session planned by foresters The Central Oregon chapter of the Society of American Forest ers will hold its monthly meeting Friday, February 16, at the Ocho co Inn in Prineville. Dinner will be served at 7 o'clock, following a social hour at 6:30. The meeting will follow, con tinuing until about 10:30. Guest speaker will be Lewis G. Prichard, Portland, assistant vice- president of the First National Bank of Oregon. He will have as his topic, "The Impact of Our Forest Resources on the Economy of Oregon The business meeting will In clude a discussion of proposed chapter by-laws, and plans for a short course to train foresters in land management in recognizing animal damage to Ponderosa pine I trees. The Freedom Center, which sparked the Salem demonstration, quietly passed out anti-Communist pamphlets. Hall received polite applause and a few boos. Following his 20 minute talk, students questioned him for 30 minutes. Then he was whisked away in a police car. During the question and answer period he was asked if he be lieved in God. After explaining that he felt it was an individual'! ing condition. All Are Impatient So was Glenn, Powers said, but there were indications he was no more pleased than anybody else by the many delays which have plagued his mission. Powers said all of the Mercury man-in-space astronauts are "instinctively Im patient." But they are "accustomed to waiting," he said, adding that when he saw Glenn today the space pilot was "smiling and anxious." Powers said at a news confer ence that Glenn will carry a hand camera with him into space. If he has time, on top of his my riad other duties, he will snap pictures of the capsule Interior, of himself, and of whatever Is ob servable from the craft's picture window. The Weather Bureau wants Glenn to take pictures of cloud patterns from his point of van tage loo to 150 miles up at the same time the recently launched TIROS IV weather satellite Is tafc ing them from an altitude of more than 400 miles. NASA spokesman Paul Hancy said that after a fully successful orbital flight Glenn "in all likeli hood" would have his first sub sequent news conference in Wash ington. Continue Preparations Powers said there was a 50-50 chance that the weather would be favorable in all critical areas, and technicians therefore went ahead with the prelaunch checkout of rocket, spacecraft, and ground eouinmcnt. Powers previously said that from a technical standpoint all systems are in a 'go' (ready) condition." Dairy breeders may dissolve mid-state group Speclel to The Bulletin REDMOND Dissolution of the Central Oregon Dairy Breeders Association will be discussed and brought to a vote at a meeting Friday at 1:15 p.m. in Milton's banquet room, according to Coun ty Agent James McAllster, secre tary. Reason for the planned dissolu tion, says McAllstor, is because the Oregon Breeders Association, of which the local group is an af filiate, has amended its articles and bylaws in order to authorize it to accept as members and to serve individual dairymen. It is believed that the state group can now service members directly without the necessity of maintaining two separate organi zations to perform the functions of one. The proposal brought to a vote will include the stipulation that the board of directors turn over all books, records and property to Oregon Breeders Association in exchange for assumption of all the debts and liabilities of the lo cal association. DOW JONES AVERAGES By United Press International Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 714.32, off 0.60; 20 railroads 149.13, up 0.05; 15 utili ties 127.74, up 0.66, and 65 stocks 243.83, up 0.18. Sales today were about 3.4 million shares compared with 2.62 million shares Monday. right to believe or not believe and Uiat he was reared in a religious home, he said, "In all honesty, I would say I do not believe in God." He was scheduled to speak at Lewis and Clark College late to day and at Reed College Wednes day. Circuit Judge James W. Craw ford Monday upheld the City of Portland in its refusal to allow Hall to use the Public Auditorium here. Towns cut off, tracks washed out By United Press International Towns were isolated and thou sands of persons were homeless to. day in a rampage of snow-swollen Idaho rivers. The rustling rivers, bloated by a sudden thaw of the heavy snow cover, cut on the towns ol Lava Hot Springs and Bencroft Union Pacific railroad tracks were washed out between Pocatello and Blackfoot and only one highway, U.S. 93, was open between South ern Idaho and Utah. The western floods made 5,000 persons homeless in Idaho, Cali fornia, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. There were 3,500 persons driven from their homes ui Idaho. Southern California's worst rain storm in six years was over, leav ing behind mud-clogged homes, ooze-caked highways, millions of dollars damage, and 20 persona dead. Elsewhere in the nation, fog cloaked large areas of the Mid dle West and a three-inch snowfall closed schools in tliree . Virginia counties. The nation's low tem perature was 10 degrees below zero at Lebanon, N. II. Idaho's newest danger area was Pocatello, where the Portneuf Riv er jumped nearly a foot to a level of 9.42 feet 3.42 feet above flood stage. Two hundred persons were homeless in the town and mora than 2,000 volunteers and National Guardsmen labored at strengthen ing the dikes along the Port neuf. At Sugar City, an earthen dam on the North Fork of Teton River gave way and spilled water into the town. Idaho Gov. Robert Smylie ap pealed to the Federal Small Busi ness Administration and the Farm ers Home Administration to set up emergency offices for the han dling of disaster loans. PORTLAND (UPI) The Union Pacific Railroad said today the City of Portland passenger train will not leave for Chicago today. A spokesman said floods in Ida ho also were holding up east bound and west-bound passenger trains. The west-bound train was being delayed at McCannon. and the east-bound was held at Pocatello by floods and washed out track. Normally, passengers on a delayed train are transported around the damaged area by bus, the spokesman suid, but in this case, heavy rains and floods also have washed out highways. Snow, ram in prospecf for region Snow was falling on both the Santiam and Willamette passes this morning as light rains reach ed out over the interior range country. Forecasts indicate that intermit tent rains will continue in the Bend area through Wednesday, with mild temperature to prevail. The mercury dropped to a low of 30 In Bend this morning, and there were some ice-glazed streets before light rain started falling. Highway department crews re ported from the Willamette divide early in the day that heavy snow was falling. Packed snow cover ed the highway and plows were operating. Motorists were advised to carry chains. Snow flurries were lashing the Santiam summit this morning. Packed snow covered the road, and motorists were cautioned they should have chains handy. Overcast skies were reported from Government Camp and from Warm Springs Junction. Thera were spots of Ice In both areas. Slushy snow covered the B I u Box Pass area on the Mt. Hood area into Portland. ' f X